First Nations feminist says 'two spirit' gender expression is a colonial invention
https://thepostmillennial.com/first-nations-feminist-says-two-spirit-gender-expression-is-a-colonial-invention
“First Nations women know where babies come from,”
A First Nations feminist scholar told a crowd in Burnaby, British Columbia recently that the “two spirit” concept is a colonial invention and was first promoted in 1990 by gay rights activists as a way of depicting people who identify as both gay and indigenous.
Dr. Cherry Smiley criticized the entire transgender movement for attempting to undermine women’s rights and erode the feminist creed that women have historically been oppressed by men, according to a report in The New Westminster Times.
If biological men can pose as women, women’s rights are downgraded in the process, Smiley argued, dismissing the two-spirited talk as something that is not even in the First Nations lexicon.
Smiley spoke at “The Feminists Speak Out,” a March 21 event, organized by The Vancouver Lesbian Collective, which also featured British philosopher Dr. Kathleen Stock. Continue…